RHSA-2020:0556 - Security Advisory

Topic

Open Liberty 20.0.0.2 Runtime is now available from the Customer Portal.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

This release of Open Liberty 20.0.0.2 serves as a replacement for Open Liberty 20.0.0.1 and includes security fixes, bug fixes, and enhancements. For specific information about this release, see links in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2019-4720)
• Vulnerability in Apache CXF affects WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2019-12406)

For more details about the security issue(s), see the IBM Security Bulletin links for each CVE, listed in the References section.

Solution

Before applying the update, back up your existing installation, including all applications, configuration files, databases and database settings, and so on.

The References section of this erratum contains a download link (you must log in to download the update).

Affected Products

• Red Hat JBoss Middleware Text-Only Advisories for MIDDLEWARE 1 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=open.liberty&version=20.0.0.2
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/security-bulletin-websphere-application-server-vulnerable-denial-service-cve-2019-4720
• https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/security-bulletin-vulnerability-apache-cxf-affects-websphere-application-server-cve-2019-12406
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/4544981
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/open_liberty/2020/